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"text": "Ashby: Access to care has always been an issue in certain demographics prior to the pandemic. We talk a lot about disparities, and I actually dislike those terms: disparities and inequality, all that, yada, yada.\nHarris: Is it the passive voice you don't like?",
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"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "grammatical term",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "strona bierna"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "grammatical term",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "voz passiva"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "grammatical term",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "diateză pasivă"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "stradátelʹnyj zalóg",
"sense": "grammatical term",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "страда́тельный зало́г"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "passív",
"sense": "grammatical term",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "пасси́в"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "passívnyj zalóg",
"sense": "grammatical term",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "пасси́вный зало́г"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "grammatical term",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "guth fulangach"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "grammatical term",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"masculine"
],
"word": "па̀сӣв"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "grammatical term",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"neuter"
],
"word": "трпно стање"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "grammatical term",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"masculine"
],
"word": "pàsīv"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "grammatical term",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"neuter"
],
"word": "trpno stanje"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "grammatical term",
"word": "trpný rod"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "grammatical term",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "pasívum"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "grammatical term",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "trpni način"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "grammatical term",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "voz pasiva"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "grammatical term",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "passivum"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "grammatical term",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "passiv form"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "grammatical term",
"word": "tinig-balintiyak"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "pasývnyj stan",
"sense": "grammatical term",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "паси́вний стан"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "pasýv",
"sense": "grammatical term",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "паси́в"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "grammatical term",
"word": "dạng bị động"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "grammatical term",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "stâd oddefol"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"passive voice"
],
"word": "passive voice"
}
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